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Cheap Week: How to save money on your next vacation

Cheap Week: How to save money on your next vacation

MPR News host Angela Davis and her guests talk about how to find the best airfare and hotel deals, ideas for destinations closer to home and finding more value when you travel.
by Angela Davis and Cari Dwyer

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Mosquitoes in Minnesota test positive for West Nile virus for the first time this summer

Mosquitoes in Minnesota test positive for West Nile virus for the first time this summer

West Nile virus, a disease spread to humans by mosquitoes, is back once again this summer in Minnesota. Experts advise older adults and the immunocompromised take extra precautions, including using insect repellents and covering exposed skin when outdoors.
by Noah Bloch

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Forest Service proposes cutting refunds to reduce last minute Boundary Waters cancellations

Forest Service proposes cutting refunds to reduce last minute Boundary Waters cancellations

A record number of people canceled BWCA permits last year, and many of them canceled too close to the entry dates for others to use them. Now officials are weighing whether to reduce refunds to discourage people from booking multiple permits.
by Dan Kraker

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A 12-year-old Minnesota girl caught a 30-inch trout, breaking her older sister's state record

A 12-year-old Minnesota girl caught a 30-inch trout, breaking her older sister's state record

A teenage girl from Maple Grove caught a 28.5-inch rainbow trout in a North Shore stream last summer, setting a new catch and release state record. Not to be outdone, her younger sister caught an even bigger trout this year, breaking that record.
by Noah Bloch

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Minnesota muskie plan encourages anglers to track the elusive trophy fish

Minnesota muskie plan encourages anglers to track the elusive trophy fish

Private clubs, businesses, researchers and local and tribal governments spent the past three years working with the state developing a long-range plan for muskie, short for muskellunge. It's the first long-term plan since 2008 and runs through 2040.
by Seth Richardson

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Grandma's Marathon at 50: How Duluth's 26.2-mile race became one of nation's most popular

Grandma's Marathon at 50: How Duluth's 26.2-mile race became one of nation's most popular

Nearly 24,000 runners are expected in Duluth this weekend for Grandma’s weekend. Sponsored by a then-fledgling restaurant in a rundown part of town, the event has come a long way since its founding, when just 116 runners finished it.
by Dan Kraker

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Outdoor School program gets kids out of classrooms and into the wild for learning, healing

Outdoor School program gets kids out of classrooms and into the wild for learning, healing

A new grant program approved by state legislators last year is helping more Minnesota students get out of the classroom and into the wild to study science and nature up close and in person. For one group of kids from a St. Paul Spanish immersion school, the trip to the outdoors couldn’t have come at a better time.
by Catharine Richert

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Gannon solar storm cost corn growers a billion dollars

Gannon solar storm cost corn growers a billion dollars

You might remember the bright aurora borealis from May 2024, visible all across Minnesota and the Upper Midwest. Down below on Earth, it was a panicked few days for farmers. Solar (or geomagnetic) storms are nothing new, but technology like global positioning systems hadn’t faced a big test from a solar storm until 2024. Things did not go well.
by Ben Cathey

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